Details

Date

1887

Author

Hlava

Contribution

Confirmed Entamoeba histolytica as cause of dysentery.

Reference

Imperato

Notes

Jaroslav Hlava. His publication, in Czech, gave rise to the spurious Doctor Uplavaci. In abstracting the report in German, a translator omitted the author's name. The Czech title words O Uplavaci, meaning On Dysentery, were widely cited in the literature as the author's name. The error was pointed out by Dobell in 1938; see Imperato, P.J., Bull. New York Acad. Med. 57: 175-187, 1981.